Crucial Security Update for Thunderbird in Scientific Linux SL5/SL6

Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 18:23:09 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Bonnie King 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x,
 SL7.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1012-1
Issue Date: 2015-05-18
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-2708
 CVE-2015-2710
 CVE-2015-2713
 CVE-2015-2716
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Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird
processed compressed XML data. An attacker could create specially crafted
compressed XML content that, when processed by Thunderbird, could cause it
to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2716)

Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted
HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages.
They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when
viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.
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SL5
 x86_64
 thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
SL7
 x86_64
 thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
 thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team